Infrastructural Times : Temporality and the Making of Global Urban Worlds /
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Bristol :
Bristol University Press,
2024.
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Table of Contents:
- Front Cover
- Infrastructural Times: Temporality and the Making of Global Urban Worlds
- Copyright information
- Table of Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Time for a Global Infrastructure Turn
- Introduction: take your time
- Unpacking infrastructure's temporalities
- Time, infrastructure, and the urban experience
- Infrastructures as temporal
- Temporal imaginaries
- Times of maintenance and repair
- Moving infrastructure time forward: an overview of the book
- Infrastructural pasts, presents, and futures
- Development times and the making of urban worlds
- Times of disruption/ disrupting times
- Your time starts now
- References
- 2 Rhythmic Infrastructure
- Three-dimensional dialectics of space-time
- Infrastructural rhythms as a temporal analytic
- Repetition: generating difference through repeating
- Cycle: temporal alignment and contradiction
- Period: grappling with continuity and discontinuity
- The possibility of rhythmic infrastructure time
- Notes
- References
- PART I Infrastructural Pasts, Presents, and Futures
- 3 Usable Infrastructure Pasts: Mobilizing History for Urban Technology Futures
- Introduction
- Comprehending usable pasts
- Identifying usable infrastructure pasts
- Embedded pasts
- Adapted pasts
- Parallel pasts
- Futured pasts
- Discarded pasts
- Mobilizing usable infrastructure pasts
- Re-presenting pasts
- Re-membering pasts
- Re-iterating pasts
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
- References
- 4 Shifting Regimes of Historicity and the Control of Urban Futures through Infrastructures: Continuities, Ambivalences, and Tensions in the Anthropocene
- Introduction
- The temporalities of modern infrastructures
- The infrastructural dimension of modernity
- The lifetimes and life cycles of infrastructures in recent history
- Infrastructures and the experience of time in everyday life
- Infrastructures and the modern regime of historicity
- The interrelated registers of temporality in the modern infrastructural compact
- Infrastructures, modern futurism, and contemporary presentism
- The rise of a presentist experience of time and the digital revolution
- Infrastructures between futurism and presentism
- Infrastructure-based futuring and the rising concern about the Anthropocene
- Pluralizing times
- Reopening infrastructural futures
- How (and why) to research infrastructure-based futuring
- Study initiatives that challenge dominant forms of infrastructure development
- Study how futures are actively shaped in the present, and how they were shaped in the past
- Explore elsewheres and elsewhens beyond the networked city
- Notes
- References
- 5 Extensions as Infrastructure: The Temporalities between Subjugation and Liberation in Jayapura, West Papua
- Times of forced autonomy